Axel Högel

Axel Högel

Born: March 23, 1884
Died: September 20, 1970
in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Movies for Axel Högel...

Storm
Title: Storm
Character: Postman
Released: January 22, 1960
Type: Movie
An elderly gentleman lives alone with his maid Louise. He spends his days chatting with the confectioner who lives and works downstairs, playing chess with his brother Karl Fredrick, and content with his memories. His young wife Gerda ran out on him five years ago, taking their young daughter with her. Now, unbeknownst to the gentleman, she’s back… and living in the upstairs apartment with the child and her new husband. When Gerda finally faces the man, sparks will fly and old wounds will be reopened. Bergman's TV adaptation of August Strindberg's play "Storm" was presented on the 111th anniversary of the author's birth. The production was also shown in Denmark and Norway and received glowing reviews. Bergman was celebrated as an outstanding TV director and was praised for his tact and sympathy in depicting old age, his superior lighting and fine camera work as well as his understanding of the medium in his use of close-ups.
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Guldgrävarna
Title: Guldgrävarna
Character: Vanja's father
Released: January 26, 1959
Type: Movie
After a series of bad card game experiences Carl Gustafsson and Arne Arnesson are forced to run away. A while later they are on a boat to America.
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Vi på Väddö
Title: Vi på Väddö
Character: Östen Larsson
Released: October 13, 1958
Type: Movie
Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.
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The Great Amateur
Title: The Great Amateur
Released: June 22, 1958
Type: Movie
Modern fairy tale about the small town of Fårtuna where the chief of police is also an amateur theater director. The local shop assistant Linda aspires to become an actress and gets discovered by a talent agent from Stockholm.
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Gårdarna runt sjön
Title: Gårdarna runt sjön
Character: Karlsson
Released: February 17, 1957
Type: Movie
A young and spoiled aristocrat is guilty of a hit-and-run accident.
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Johan på Snippen
Title: Johan på Snippen
Character: Kommunordförande
Released: November 12, 1956
Type: Movie
In the village of Stubbhult lives many motorcycle interested young people. However, their rampage interfere with the local population.
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Kulla-Gulla
Title: Kulla-Gulla
Released: August 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Orphan girl Gunilla (nick named Kulla-Gulla) gets sent from her orphanage to work as an housemaid at sharecropper Karlbergs household. Among her duties is to take care of Karlberg, his wife and their five children.
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Ett dockhem
Title: Ett dockhem
Character: båtsman
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
August Strindberg's feedback to Henrik Ibsen's "Doll's House"--a short story from the collection "Giftas" (Getting married), about female emancipation and obsolete marriages.
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Janne Vängman och den stora kometen
Title: Janne Vängman och den stora kometen
Released: October 10, 1955
Type: Movie
Janne Vängman is having dreams of meeting aliens from outer space.
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Darling of Mine
Title: Darling of Mine
Character: Railway yard worker
Released: July 22, 1955
Type: Movie
The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly interested in getting an interview with him. She finds out secret information about his next movie, and to stop her from revealing it, Jack Harris gets her alone with him on an isolated island in the archipelago. Romance blossoms... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Karusellen i fjällen
Title: Karusellen i fjällen
Character: äldre professor
Released: March 15, 1955
Type: Movie
The porter of the hotel is trying to keep his sanity when two guests who share both looks and name check in. He's also unaware that his new bell boy is actually the owner's daughter in disguise.
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Sir Arne's Treasure
Title: Sir Arne's Treasure
Character: Priest in Marstrand
Released: December 16, 1954
Type: Movie
Three Scottish noblemen escape from Gripsholm Castle and breaks in to the home of Lord Arne. They kill everyone except for Lord Arne's adopted daughter Elsalill.
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Storm over Tjurö
Title: Storm over Tjurö
Character: Judge
Released: July 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.
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Tattarblod
Title: Tattarblod
Character: Josef Demant
Released: February 8, 1954
Type: Movie
David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a notorious drifter.
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Oppåt med Gröna Hissen
Title: Oppåt med Gröna Hissen
Character: Guard
Released: December 26, 1952
Type: Movie
A man and a woman are cheated on by their respective partners and decide to get their revenge.
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Kärlek
Title: Kärlek
Released: December 22, 1952
Type: Movie
A new young priest begins his duty on a small island. He assumes that the service should not be to demanding, so that he will be able to finish his doctoral thesis. But the life at sea is hard with severe accidents. He faces emotionally difficult situations related to both love and death.
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For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth
Title: For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth
Character: Train conductor
Released: December 17, 1952
Type: Movie
For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth (Swedish: För min heta ungdoms skull) is a 1952 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Mattsson. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
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Hård klang
Title: Hård klang
Character: Svenske Fredrik
Released: September 15, 1952
Type: Movie
A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German opened a quarry some 50 years ago, after realizing the value of granite. Now WW1 begins.
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Towards the Future
Title: Towards the Future
Character: Mr. Melkersson
Released: August 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A politically motivated dramatic short film from Social Democrats ahead of the 1952 elections.
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One Summer of Happiness
Title: One Summer of Happiness
Character: Johan Larsson, Kerstin's grandfather
Released: December 17, 1951
Type: Movie
The young high school graduate Göran and the 17-year-old Kerstin get to know each other on the estate of Göran's uncle Persson and fall in love. But their relationship is watched suspiciously by the jammed adult world. While Persson has an understanding of the youth, Kerstin's parents and the pastor of the village rant against the alleged immorality of the young people. Despite all the malice, Göran and Kerstin decide for their love. But this love should last only one summer.
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When Bengt and Anders Changed Wives
Title: When Bengt and Anders Changed Wives
Character: Vicar
Released: December 23, 1950
Type: Movie
Two neighbours, each with a small plot of land, hate each other. Both are dissatisfied with his wife.
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When Love Came to the Village
Title: When Love Came to the Village
Character: Vicar
Released: October 8, 1950
Type: Movie
A new teacher arrives to the small village and he soon stir up some trouble with his modern way of looking at things. He also stir up some amorous feelings among the local women.
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My Sister and I
Title: My Sister and I
Character: Jönsson
Released: January 26, 1950
Type: Movie
The rich, aristocratic Katarina Hassel have an architect renovate her mansion. Katarina fall in love with the young architect, Gunnar Stenwall. Alas, he doesn't fall in love with her. But perhaps if Gunnar would meet her identical sister, who works in Stockholm as a waitress, he would fall in love with her instead? So Katarina travels to Stockholm to act as her non-existing sister.
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Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
Title: Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
Character: Tuvesson i Häggnäset
Released: October 29, 1949
Type: Movie
it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.
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Jungfrun på Jungfrusund
Title: Jungfrun på Jungfrusund
Character: Tärnlund
Released: October 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Spoiled upper class girl must change places with a housemaid.
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Son of the Sea
Title: Son of the Sea
Character: Hagen, priest
Released: October 12, 1949
Type: Movie
The priest Hagen comes to a small Norwegian village one stormy evening. He brings the tragic news to wife Sigrid Bakken. Her husband and oldest son has drowned during fishing.
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Sven Tusan
Title: Sven Tusan
Released: February 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Sven Jönsson is a big man in Havborre fishing village in Skåne. He is usually called Sven Tusan.
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Vagabond Blacksmiths
Title: Vagabond Blacksmiths
Released: February 7, 1949
Type: Movie
Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters, seeking out jobs elsewhere. During their travels, they come across beautiful girls as well as jobs in different ironworks, where the workers are organizing, monitored by a brutal police force.
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Vart hjärta har sin saga
Title: Vart hjärta har sin saga
Released: September 13, 1948
Type: Movie
Baron Henric Löwencrona af Löwstaborg allows his daughter to marry a worker's son.
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Lars Hård
Title: Lars Hård
Character: Prisoner
Released: August 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.
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Railroad Workers
Title: Railroad Workers
Character: Baptist-Anders
Released: December 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The north of Sweden in 1902. A team of railroad men are building a rail road from Luleå at the Bay of Bothnia to Narvik at the Norwegian Sea. One of the newest workers, Valfrid from the south of Sweden, is not accepted by neither Stora Ballong, the informal leader of the workers, nor the others. They refuse to talk to him but instead Valfrid gets help from the sworn enemy of the railroad workers: the greedy drugstore owner Blom.
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Livet i finnskogarna
Title: Livet i finnskogarna
Character: Lundell
Released: August 22, 1947
Type: Movie
In a rural parish in 1906, young Heikki, one of the Finnish immigrants, lives a wild and free life in the deep forest. After poaching, his furs are confiscated and Heikki vows to have his revenge by seducing the young women of the parish, one by one.
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The Bells in Old Town
Title: The Bells in Old Town
Released: December 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Kalle Magnus Berg is a kind bailiff in Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm. He helps out "clients" by supporting them with money from his own pocket. His neighbor is a jazz musician who plays at a restaurant for a living.
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Hotell Kåkbrinken
Title: Hotell Kåkbrinken
Character: Karlsson, lagerförman hos Sjöqvist
Released: December 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house and build a new and modern house instead.
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Saltstänk och krutgubbar
Title: Saltstänk och krutgubbar
Character: Nordström
Released: October 28, 1946
Type: Movie
The stingy fisherman Ericsson lives on a small island north of Stockholm with his wife Johanna och her father Isak.
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Begär
Title: Begär
Released: September 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Carsten Berg returns home after 15 years abroad. He gets into a fight with his father, who dies of a heart attack. Carsten must take over his fathers business. He is informed that he is suffering from an incurable disease.
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The Happy Tailor
Title: The Happy Tailor
Character: Auctioneer
Released: December 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have.
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Jagad
Title: Jagad
Released: August 27, 1945
Type: Movie
A smalltime businessman gets himself into finance problems. His bank requires tangible proof of ability to pay. The businessman makes a drastic decision.
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Maria på Kvarngården
Title: Maria på Kvarngården
Character: Priest
Released: January 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Maria is a waitress at a local restaurant when an older man propose to her. She is a bit skeptical but agrees to marry him and become the mistress of his estate Kvarngården. Maria had a son which she was forced to give away for adoption when he was born because she could not take care of him. She has keep contact with the child and posed as a kind aunt. She has not told her new husband about her son and when the years go by and no children of their own comes along the resentment and bitterness grows. When the adoptive mother of Maria's son dies she and the adoptive father agrees that the best thing for the boy is to come and stay with Maria at Kvarngården. She also hope that it will make her husband come out of his bitterness to have a young boy around. The result is unfortunately quite the opposite.
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The Emperor of Portugallia
Title: The Emperor of Portugallia
Released: December 26, 1944
Type: Movie
The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives the newborn child in his arms he is overjoyed. He does everything in his power for her during her. But when she as an adult leaves home, Jan can not come over the loss of her.
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Turn of the Century
Title: Turn of the Century
Character: Parish constable
Released: December 26, 1944
Type: Movie
Munthe has become a rich farmer through his own work and has gained some influence in the local community. He is strongly opposed to the immigration of east European farm labour from Galicia who, he claims, makes life difficult for the locals. A new school teacher with socialist leanings arrive and Munthe's daughter fall in love with him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Prince Gustaf
Title: Prince Gustaf
Character: Innkeeper
Released: November 29, 1944
Type: Movie
In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story due to the rules of society.
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Kajan går till sjöss
Title: Kajan går till sjöss
Character: Port administrator
Released: December 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Kajan, a young boy, spends the summer with his friends working on a barge, earning extra money in the ports with their song and dance number. A young countess runs away from home and joins Kajan and his friends.
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The Brothers' Woman
Title: The Brothers' Woman
Character: The Doctor
Released: November 22, 1943
Type: Movie
City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.
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Lille Napoleon
Title: Lille Napoleon
Character: Blomkvist
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Office worker Napoleon Larsson is an unnoticed existence. One day when he arrives late for work, he gets fired, but through his wife's actions he gets alerted by the boss and advances within the company.
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I brist på bevis
Title: I brist på bevis
Character: Bridge Player
Released: January 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A drama about the manager Håkan Dahlin who has just been discharged from a clinic where he was treated for his alcoholism. In an outbreak of jealousy, Dahlin abuses his wife Inga and after that he is forcibly interned again. Inga is a nurse and she is now moving to a mountain village to work at a district clinic. During an emergency visit, she encounters her childhood sweetheart, the doctor Gunnar, and old feelings between them begin to flare up again.
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Ride Tonight!
Title: Ride Tonight!
Released: November 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg's novel.
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Rospiggar
Title: Rospiggar
Character: Customs officer
Released: September 3, 1942
Type: Movie
A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Our Gang
Title: Our Gang
Character: Postmaster
Released: February 2, 1942
Type: Movie
A gang of friends lose their club house and collect money for a new one by singing in public.
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If I Could Marry the Minister
Title: If I Could Marry the Minister
Character: Eva's father
Released: December 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Eva Örn is a newly graduated teacher, who becomes a school teacher in rural Vikarlunda. She is a beautiful young woman with firm opinions and she does not live up to the locals' picture of the ideal female teacher. She has an affair with the pastor, Ingvar Hagson, but they have to keep their love a secret.
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The Ghost Reporter
Title: The Ghost Reporter
Released: August 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Augustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he starts working as a reporter under false name.
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Landstormens lilla argbigga
Title: Landstormens lilla argbigga
Character: Karl Söderman
Released: March 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Spoiled upper class girl must join a home defense unit to learn military drill and fall in love with a lieutenant.
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Mot nya tider
Title: Mot nya tider
Character: Andrakammarriksdagsman
Released: November 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.
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Her Little Majesty
Title: Her Little Majesty
Character: Car Repairman
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Spoiled upper class girl Marianne speeds through a small village and crashes her sports car into the house of the local vicar. She will have to stay for a few days while her car is repaired. Opposites attract but what will the locals think of this odd couple who slowly realize that they are fond of each other?
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Då länkarna smiddes
Title: Då länkarna smiddes
Released: September 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A story about the cooperative trade in Sweden.
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I dag börjar livet
Title: I dag börjar livet
Character: Karl Lundström
Released: August 15, 1939
Type: Movie
Choreographer is found murdered and the police investigate. There are several suspects among his lovers, dancers and family members.
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We Two
Title: We Two
Character: Father at the Maternity Ward
Released: March 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.
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Kloka gubben
Title: Kloka gubben
Released: October 30, 1938
Type: Movie
In a small village there are two doctors - one professional and one quack. Dr. Bergman has to see the number of his patients dwindle, as they seem to prefer the traditional medication of the quack doctor, Rasmus Thomsen. Rasmus' son Erik graduates from medical school and returns to the village. While Rasmus and Dr. Bergman become enemies, Erik falls in love with Dr. Bergman's daughter Birgit.
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Dollar
Title: Dollar
Character: Andersson - Royal Yacht Club Valet
Released: September 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Ludvig and Sussi Battwyhl, Louis and Katja Brenner and Julia and Kurt Balzar are upper class millionaires. They don't seem to do any real work but still need a vacation in the mountains. Everybody seems to be romantically involved with everybody. A rich American woman joins them.
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Sockerskrinet
Title: Sockerskrinet
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
A story spanning four generations.
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Our Building of Home and Community
Title: Our Building of Home and Community
Released: November 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Campaign film for the Swedish Folkpartiet (People's Party) in 1936.
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Bombi Bitt and Me
Title: Bombi Bitt and Me
Character: Elof
Released: November 16, 1936
Type: Movie
A Swedish feature film based on a novel by Fritiof Nilsson Piraten.
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The Family That Was a Carousel
Title: The Family That Was a Carousel
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
The Björn family is a little odd family.
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Järnets män
Title: Järnets män
Released: September 18, 1935
Type: Movie
A film about the breakthrough of the labor movement in Sweden depicted by a metal worker's point of view.
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Perhaps a Gentleman
Title: Perhaps a Gentleman
Character: Verkstedsinnehaveren, Guras kamerat
Released: August 24, 1935
Type: Movie
Director Hugo Berner and Doctor Olof Mellgren have come out of the theater where they have just shown the classic play Pygmalion. Director Mellgren claims that, like Higgins in the play, he can turn a harbor worker into the gentleman.
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The Ingmar Inheritance
Title: The Ingmar Inheritance
Character: Auction speculator
Released: December 26, 1925
Type: Movie
"The Ingmar Inheritance". The story of a group of farmers who choose to leave their homes and follow the preacher Helgum to the Holy Land.
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Johan Ulfstjerna
Title: Johan Ulfstjerna
Character: Conspirator
Released: December 2, 1923
Type: Movie
The story of a man who makes a great sacrifice for his country and for his son. Based on the play of the same title by Tor Hedberg.
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The Tyranny of Hate
Title: The Tyranny of Hate
Character: Simon i Boda
Released: November 1, 1920
Type: Movie
It's the beginning of the 1800s. A feud between the people of Ödemo and Rävgården has been going on since the dawn of time and now it's worse than ever.